VENUS side story

This is a side-story to a story of mine called V.E.N.U.S. So for more explanation on life on Venus is in there.
By the way, the days and the years in this story are by Earth time, not by Venus’ as a year on Venus is shorter than that on Earth and the day is much longer.

17th of January, year 2108, location – Dome #25, Venus
Welcome to my diary. My name is Seth. I’ve decided to record all my thoughts and adventures here in case we won’t make it. It’s been almost a year now since human race arrived at planet Venus. Unfortunately the ship that I was in crash landed and so I was in a coma for all this time. The doctors say that I am lucky to be alive. The reason we moved planets is because Earth was destroyed by an asteroid, but luckily we fitted all of humanity and useful supplies on our spaceships. We have many inventions to counter Venus’ vile conditions, in particular a metal called Crufax that has high melting point and resistant to extremely high pressure.
Yesterday I joined a police force that operates here on Venus. It’s true that after a major disaster, criminal activity is pretty likely to happen. Everyone only cares about themselves, while we try to bring order. Our force is called V.E.N.U.S. which stands for Vast Elimination of Negotiations Universal Security. I used to be a police officer back on Earth and so have some experience in this area.
The humans are gradually adapting. We’ve built a few domes out of Crufax and have suits made of it. Even though we don’t have too many suits yet so do not tend to come outside the domes as often. In a few years’ time we should turn this planet in a habitable place. We just need time.

22nd of January, year 2108, location – Dome #25, Venus
The last few days went well for me. I am still recovering from the trauma of crash landing and gradually regaining some of the memory back. Finally my team got a serious task today. Tomorrow we’ll be shipped off to Dome 13, as there’s been an accident there. That’ll be my first proper assignment here and I am very looking forward to it. I made some friends on my team. Their names are Joe, Max and Greg.
Joe is a pretty laid back dude and likes to joke a lot. Some of his jokes I don’t get. Max is a rather opposite of Joe, he tends to be serious most of the time and doesn’t smile much to be honest. Greg is clever one in our group, he tends to work out difficult problems in seconds. Well as I said already, I’m looking forward to the assignment tomorrow and hope that it goes well. I’ll keep on recording my thoughts on here as often as I can.

23rd of January, year 2108, location – Dome #13, Venus
So we’ve finally arrived to Dome #13 after 1 hour of mission briefing and preparation, and 2 hours of flight. This half of the dome that we are in has been evacuated, so there’s pretty much not a single soul here, just 10 V.E.N.U.S. members checking the place out. I tended to mostly stick with my friends as I trusted them. I remember how frustrated they were getting as the place was a mess and also smelled badly. Max was so bored that he was gonna shoot at the wall. Joe kept on winding him up with his silly jokes, Greg kept on wandering off into his thoughts, so I pretty much was the only one following the rules.
Right now we’re having a little break but we’ll continue checking out the place. Afterall one dome is huge and therefore it will take us days to look through it all.

25th of January, year 2108, location – Dome #13, Venus
It’s been 2 and a half days now and still no clues. This mission is starting to get very boring now. Our chief thought of perhaps splitting up, because this way we’ll look through this half of the Dome much quicker. Max has officially gone insane. He punched Joe today for making a joke about his girlfriend and overall has been very impatient with the mission. I don’t blame him. I feel like going ballistic too, but I don’t want to be hated by my team.
Tomorrow, we’ll be splitting up. Me, my mates and also one more guy named Fred will be checking out the lower levels, while the rest of the guys will be checking higher levels. I really do hope that we will be back to our home Dome soon, but my instincts are telling me otherwise. Something fishy is going on here and I don’t like it. I smell conspiracy.

27th of January, year 2108, location – Dome #13, Venus
Oh my God, I feel like I’m going to have a nervous breakdown now. Yesterday everything was going OK, but today we stumbled onto a dark room and while travelling through it, something took away Max and Fred. The rest of us sprinted through the remainder of the room like 3 scared-to-death mice. We still haven’t found Max and Fred. I hope they’re still alive. We cannot afford casualties at this time. Even Joe has been quiet and hasn’t made any jokes for the whole day. We tried to report to our chief about the situation, but the signal is really bad down here and something seems to be disrupting it. Maybe there is some kind of electromagnetic field in this area. Well there is nothing else we can do except for carrying on with our mission. Greg found a blood trail leading underground a few minutes ago, but none of us has been brave enough to go down there yet. Maybe we’ll go down there tomorrow and see whose blood that is. I feel like the answer to all our questions is down there.

28th of January, year 2108, location – Under Dome #13, Venus
Ok so today me and the rest of my friends decided to be brave and went through that door. We’re currently underground having a little rest. We’ve been seriously spooked out today when we saw a huge mouth and an eye inside it come out from the ground. It was really dark so maybe we were hallucinating, but that thing looked very real. We all are very scared. I don’t know how long we will survive before losing our mind.
Greg vomited twice today. I think he’s allergic to the smell here. The smell is quite peculiar, I am still trying to find words to describe it.
I don’t wish to continue going any more today, neither do my teammates, but we still have not found Max and Fred, so we can’t procrastinate. I hope we will be men enough to continue tomorrow.

29th of January, year 2108, location – Under Dome #13, Venus
It’s been another day in hell. We’ve almost ran out of our food supplies. I think they’ll last us for 2 more days. We decided to screw the mission and to go back. If Max and Fred are here somewhere then they’re likely to be dead already. I think they would’ve died of dehydration already. I worked as a policeman for almost 9 years back on Earth and never have I seen a teammate die in combat. What kind of hell is this planet?!
So far we didn’t see any life forms in here or anything that could’ve taken Max and Fred away a few days ago, just blood stains everywhere. Some kind of slaughter definitely happened here. I think these were some kind of labs doing illegal research. I would really like to know what’s going on but I don’t think any of us has a nerve to continue this mission, so tomorrow we’ll be heading back up.

2nd of February, year 2108, location – Under Dome #13, Venus
How glad am I to find my diary again! I’ve just had the worst week of my life! Joe, Greg and I were heading back when we were attacked. I don’t know what they were, but they are nothing I’ve seen before. They were some hideous beings as if sent from hell. There were ones with a mouth instead of a face, then there were muscly ones with a huge jagged tongue and there were also a few flying ones with massive teeth and a sting. Both Joe and Greg died the most awful death I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t even want to write about it. It gives me death chills. That’s when I lost this diary. I kept on running as fast as I could until I plunged into a massive hole in the floor. I lost my consciousness and woke up only a few hours ago. It took a while to climb out of there. It was so dark and smelly there that I thought I was in my grave already. I am not sure what are my chances of getting out of here alive, but as long as I have ammo in my V-blast handgun I should make it.

4th of February, year 2108, location – Somewhere near Dome #13, Venus
I am currently breathing in my last breaths of air. I don’t think I’ll be able to write in this diary tomorrow. I’ll try to explain what happened to me in the past 2 days as briefly as possible.
To begin with I lost my way, I am not sure what happened to the place, but I never found my way out of the underground. Instead I kept on crawling through a very long tunnel. It took me a few hours! I was attacked by some creatures on the other side. I shot a few down, but got severely injured. I also saw Max’s and Fred’s dead bodies. Their limbs were scattered all over the place and their entrails were smudged on the walls. I crawled my way here. I don’t know what is this place, but it is by far the cleanest and blood-free place I’ve seen in days. There is actually a small computer here and it is fully functional. I read some nasty things here and a lot of this began making sense. I even found out that I have a wife and a 14 year old son here on Venus. Why didn’t anybody tell me about them?! But most importantly: Why couldn’t I remember them?!
I really wish I could make it back and to see my family but it looks like I… o…